Archive for August, 2018

What Can Black Muslims Teach White Muslims? And Why Do They Learn The Opposite?

What Can Black Muslims Teach White Muslims? And Why Do They Learn The Opposite?

Isn’t it funny that white converts connected with the Warith Deen Muhammad community (also known as The American Society of Al-Islam), or even with past in the Nation of Islam, speak about the problems of white Muslims in the U.S. today? Although I lived on the other side of the Earth, for me as a white European interested in Islam,[Read More…]

August 29, 2018 0 comments Our vision
Jordan Peterson and Islam

Jordan Peterson and Islam

Jordan Peterson has been an invaluable addition to debates on modern controversies. Unfortunately, his views and claims about Islam and Islamic history have been far from nuanced and plays into the hands of anti-Muslim sentiments.   Questioner: You put the Judaeo-Christian tradition on the one side and Islam on the other. Specifically, “the complex problem of Islam” as a “totalizing system”[Read More…]

August 26, 2018 0 comments Society
The Scientific Method for Researching Truth 

The Scientific Method for Researching Truth 

The Scientific Method for Researching Truth  According to Muslim Scholars and Others Introduction If realising the truth as it actually is is science, as they say, then the method that is used to achieve this realisation should–without a doubt–also be scientific, i.e. the method that is used should be none other than a series of true realisations in and of[Read More…]

August 26, 2018 0 comments Faith
Eid al-Adha Mubarak!

Eid al-Adha Mubarak!

The team of I4E wishes all Muslims happy Eid al-Adha!   Have a lovely holiday with your families and communities and may Allah bless you!

August 21, 2018 0 comments Category 1
The Oldest Lasting Muslim Organization in the US – a European One

The Oldest Lasting Muslim Organization in the US – a European One

The oldest lasting Muslim organization in Northern America is Džemijetul Hajrije/The Benevolent Society formed by Bosniaks 1906 in Chicago. Today they are known as Bosnian Islamic Cultural Center and are part of Islamic Community of Bosnia. Bosnians first migrated to Chicago in the late nineteenth century. Early migrants from Bosnia-Herzegovina were generally young, unskilled male laborers who came in search[Read More…]

August 17, 2018 0 comments History & Culture
The Romans and Quran

The Romans and Quran

“The Romans have been defeated in the lowest land, but after their defeat they will soon be victorious. Within three to nine years. The decision of the matter, before and after, is with God.” (Quran 30:2-4)   Quranic miracle which predicted the victory of the Romans (Byzantines) over their Persian Sassanid enemies. Shortly before the expansion of Islam began, Persian[Read More…]

August 13, 2018 0 comments History & Culture
Fredrick II Hohenstaufen – a German Emperor and Islamophile

Fredrick II Hohenstaufen – a German Emperor and Islamophile

On the historical plan, the relations between Islam and Germany in the Middle ages were not just political ones, but civilizational ones as well. Fredrick II Hohenstaufen was not only a ”founder” of the specific shape of German sympathy towards Islam, he also started the pattern to which all the later attempts of western understanding of Islam aligned to. As[Read More…]

August 13, 2018 0 comments History & Culture